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It Takes Courage
38 minutes Posted Aug 9, 2025 at 9:08 pm.
– First guest leading large-scale education projects
– From Spanish teacher to school attorney to education executive
– Superintendent of Utah’s first new school district in 100 years
– Building a $300M district from scratch in 12 months
– Legal battles and resolving high-stakes conflict
– Winning support for a massive public project
– Balancing incompatible demands and calming the chaos
– “I can’t do this by myself” — rallying the team
– Turning vision into reality for your people
– Giving students your best, every time
– Brown v. Board, equity, and the power of literacy
– Leading with passion for disadvantaged students
– Launching coding programs for women in prison
– Defining scope and success at Western Governors University
– Who is the real customer: student or employer?
– The fight against the status quo in education
– Competing agendas and the challenge of innovation
– Social media, stakeholders, and leading through noise
– Pivoting through politics, budgets, and shifting priorities
– “Try to go it alone, it just doesn’t work” — collaboration in action
– Facing the mountain, building the team, leading with courage
– “We’re not just building individuals. We’re building communities.”
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In this episode, we talk with David Doty, an education leader who has taken on some of the toughest assignments in the field.
David shares what it was like to launch a brand-new school district in a deeply divided Utah community and how he later revitalized educational programs for incarcerated adults across the country.
We get into what it takes to lead under scrutiny, build trust in fractured environments, and stay grounded in purpose when the pressure is on. This is an episode about the real work of systems change, and the kind of steady leadership that gets it done.
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David Doty on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidsdoty/
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